A survey of beam management for mmWave and THz communications towards 6G

Q Xue, C Ji, S Ma, J Guo, Y Xu… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Communication in millimeter wave (mmWave) and even terahertz (THz) frequency bands is
ushering in a new era of wireless communications. Beam management, namely initial …

Machine learning for millimeter wave and terahertz beam management: A survey and open challenges

MQ Khan, A Gaber, P Schulz, G Fettweis - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Next-generation wireless communication networks will benefit from beamforming gain to
utilize higher bandwidths at millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) bands. For high …

Initial access & beam alignment for mmWave and terahertz communications

W Attaoui, K Bouraqia, E Sabir - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The initial access in Millimeter wave (mmWave) 5G communications is very challenging and
time consuming. In general, mmWave and terahertz communications require the use of …

Toward intelligent millimeter and terahertz communication for 6G: Computer vision-aided beamforming

Y Ahn, J Kim, S Kim, K Shim, J Kim… - IEEE Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Beamforming technique realized by the multipleinput-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna arrays
has been widely used to compensate for the severe path loss in the millimeter wave …

Millimeter-wave beamforming as an enabling technology for 5G cellular communications: Theoretical feasibility and prototype results

W Roh, JY Seol, J Park, B Lee, J Lee… - IEEE …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ever growing traffic explosion in mobile communications has recently drawn increased
attention to the large amount of underutilized spectrum in the millimeter-wave frequency …

LiDAR aided future beam prediction in real-world millimeter wave V2I communications

S Jiang, G Charan, A Alkhateeb - IEEE Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents the first large-scale real-world evaluation for using LiDAR data to guide
the mmWave beam prediction task. A machine learning (ML) model that leverages LiDAR …

Deep learning-based beam tracking for millimeter-wave communications under mobility

SH Lim, S Kim, B Shim, JW Choi - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a deep learning-based beam tracking method for millimeter-wave
(mmWave) communications. Beam tracking is employed for transmitting the known symbols …

Hybrid beamforming for 5G and beyond millimeter-wave systems: A holistic view

J Zhang, X Yu, KB Letaief - IEEE Open Journal of the …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communication is a key technology for future wireless networks.
To combat significant path loss and exploit the abundant mm-wave spectrum, effective …

Millimeter-wave communications for 5G–Part 2: applications [Guest Editorial]

M Elkashlan, TQ Duong, H Chen - IEEE Communications …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the September 2014 issue of IEEE Communications Magazine, the first part of this Feature
Topic included five articles that covered the fundamentals of mmWave communications with …

A tutorial on beam management for 3GPP NR at mmWave frequencies

M Giordani, M Polese, A Roy… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies offer the availability of huge bandwidths to
provide unprecedented data rates to next-generation cellular mobile terminals. However …